Chapter 1
Don't Own Fairy Tail or anything else Only The Oc
'thought'
"Speech"
"Powerful Creatures Speaking, like a dragon or a god"
"Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."
I squirm slightly, a low grunt leaving my lips.
My bed is so hard... what the hell?
My eyes snap open abruptly, then sit up.
"..."
This... isn't my room.
For a brief moment fear grips my core... only to be replaced by confusion.
I stare down at my hands.
They are... strange... two-d? No... three-d.
Am I seeing things?
I turn my hands, marveling at the angles and dimensions.
Anime hands?
"These aren't my hands." I mutter under my breath.
That wasn't my voice.
It was far too young.
Now that I notice it... I'm tiny. Too tiny.
I miss being small.
Wait.
Am I a child?
Realization strikes me, a quiet giggle leaving my lips that transforms into a mad cackle. "heheheh AHAHAHAHAH!"
YES!
ISEKAI! I WAS ISEKAI'D!
I hop out of bed, peering around.
This is a relatively simple bedroom. The floors look old, there's a few windows covered with tarps, there's a layer of dust over a nearby bedside table and dresser.
It looks like this room has been unused for quite some time.
The bed itself is just a wooden cot.
No form of comfortable mattress, only a ratty pillow that looks to be filled with straw.
Alright, that's mildly annoying, but... let's take stock.
My name is-
No.
Leave the past behind.
New me. New name.
What should I be called?
Eh. I'll think about it later. Take stock for now.
My name is undecided. I was twenty one years old, soon to be twenty two in like... just a few months. I was what you could call a 'hard core shut-in.'
Absolutely terrified of speaking to people.
That... I don't believe has changed.
Anyways, I was an aspiring writer, living off of basic fanfiction commissions.
Well. I mean, 'living' I was mostly mooching off others, honestly.
I was a genuine feral human being. Leaving the house only once a year or so, showering about that much as well.
Regardless... I have one. Single. Thing. That has kept me sane over the course of my life.
Escapism!
Isekai! Reincarnation! Self Insert!
Hell, even give me a unique Oc as the focus and I'd eat it right up.
I blink down at my hands, shaking my head, continuing to think as I walk. 'To be honest, this... is sort of like a dream come true for me.'
I pull out my pants gazing downwards.
'Oh Good. Still a boy. That could have sucked. I HATE the genderbending genre.'
I gently open the door to my room, gazing out into a small hallway.
There's a window on one side, then a door right across from me, traveling down the hall it seems to go into an even larger room.
I open the door in front of me.
A bathroom.
I step inside, blinking slowly, hand running along the dusty sink counter and gazing at the toilet.
It's not really special in any way. Just... a toilet.
There's also a bathtub.
I hop slightly, gazing into the mirror.
'huh. I'm a cute kid'.
I have short messy black hair and piercing green eyes. I am certainly a pre-teen. But... I don't really know how to estimate the age of the creatures that are children. Some look older than they really are, it's a whole thing, really. I'm anywhere from five to thirteen. Or at least my new body is.
I look a little familiar, but I can't really put my finger on it.
I shake my head. 'Where was i?'
Right.
'Dream come true. Still a boy, maybe I won't fuck it up this time.'
To be fair. I wouldn't necessarily call it my fault. I started getting these extremely regular stomach cramps at a young age whenever I had to take a shit. Like... near vomit inducing levels of pain. That led to me eventually dropping out of school, as I was also being bullied, and eventually never leaving the house because 'what if it happens when we are out somewhere'.
That sucked.
If that happens again to me I'm probably going to throw something. Probably myself. Off a bridge.
I shake my head.
'Positive! Think positive- wait. Think about what I was doing before waking up here...'
Well, Obviously I went to bed...
But before that, I got a shower, got a haircut and got an ID. Man. Sitting in that hallway for like an hour and a half was a real pain.
After that I went home. I had some food, did a little writing, then I went to bed.
One of two things happened.
I got whisked away and shoved into a new body... or I died in my sleep and got a new body.
A few questions should be weighing heavily on my mind now, such as 'where am I', and that one is quite the valid question.
I peer out the window, gently pulling back a bit of the tarp with my fingers.
Forest. Forest and more forest.
I turn and slowly walk away, coming to a large living room.
There's no furniture aside from a large empty display cabinet and, there's also a large half wall that seems to split the room into two. The other side has a few beat up cabinets, a fridge, and stove.
Towards the side is a door... one that leads outside as I open it.
I appear to be overlooking a large town in the distance.
No skyscrapers I will note. Just your average town with buildings that looks quite old and tough. Made of mostly stone.
I close the door.
"Huh." I turn, blinking as I notice something I had missed before... an OLD PC sat on a small desk in the corner of the living room at the side of the display cabinet. Like... I'm talking SUPER old... a DOS or something of that sort.
That's a little unusual, because the last time I checked... I didn't see any sort of power lines in that city...
I slowly walk forwards, a frown on my lips.
I pause in front of a wooden chair with four legs.
I pull it out, taking a seat in it as I reach down and push the 'power' button.
The screen flickers to life, the computer tower whirring and humming to life with a loud chime.
A loading bar appears on the Pc.
It continues loading and loading and loading.
After around five minutes of sheer boredom I blink repeatedly.
A basic home screen appears in front of me.
There's only a single shortcut on the screen.
'Emails'.
Said shortcut flashes twice, causing me to slowly mouse over to it and click.
It takes a while to load, but eventually it does so.
I've only got a single email, one titled 'Welcome'.
I click on it, causing it to slowly open.
"Hello. It is good to finally speak to you. I am the one who put you in your new body, little one, I hope you enjoy it."
"Now. There's a few things that I need to go over. Firstly, I have heard your prayers and, they have been answered. You wished for a simpler easier life, and I have given it. A life where you can follow your passions freely without sickness or disease."
"You have been given a few special items, my child. Firstly, a fridge that shall refill every day at dawn, next, this computer here, which is powered by your magic... yes, magic. The same can be said with the water from your tap. But those are merely simple quality of life gifts, along with the infinite tube of toothpaste and toothbrush."
"Now, I suppose I should talk about your boons and location... firstly, I spoke of magic. Thus, you are in a magical world. One you are quite familiar with. Fairy Tail."
"FUCK YEAH!" I grin under my breath. That is like... THE go to place to have just a peaceful life, honestly. You can interact with the plot, or you could just stay on the sidelines and enjoy a good book while Fairy Tail blows shit up.
Wait. It said that this computer here is powered by my magic. I have magic! I can play with magic! I-I mean research. RESEARCH magic.
Fuck that'd make my life so much more convenient, honestly. Self-cleaning magics, house cleaning magics, shooting lightning from my fingertips. I always did mentally complain that out of all worlds I was born in one with nothing special about it.
"As for your boons, well. I'm afraid that you don't necessarily have a system. Systems are quite... annoying... for deities to create. But I have given you the next best thing! I've heard your wants and desires for magic, that's why you have been given a special trait to understand and comprehend the deeper meanings of magic! Use this to research the deep roots of magic itself!"
"Your second boon is this computer right here. A bit shoddy and slow at the moment, sure, but with it, you can create chatgroups! And not just any chatgroups, chatgroups which cross dimensions entirely! (This was sort of hard to make. I had to go rob some rainbow eyed vampire.) The only downside is that you don't necessarily get to choose who can join. You could get anyone from Monkey D Luffy to Background Character A from Dragon Ball... you know, the one with a wolf head in that one scene. he was TOTALLY important, I'll have you know! Now, this doesn't sound like a boon- aside from keeping you from being even more of an antisocial weirdo- but what it gives you... is the ability to theoretically trade items across the world! Use these supplemental items to create new branches of magic and more!"
"Huh." I mutter. 'that could be useful.'
"The final boon comes in two parts. Firstly, you have unlocked a shop. Think eBay or something like that. Next, you may convert that world's currency into 'shop' currency at a rate of 1 to .01. However, what you can buy is fairly limited... mainly to things that existed in your first world and could be found in a gas station. oh, other currencies might have their own conversion rate as well."
"PS. The items you buy won't necessarily have the same magic to power capabilities of this computer here. So perhaps don't save up for a flatscreen- when you eventually gain the ability to purchase one- that you will have no outlet to power."
"Now... enjoy your new life, child!"
I close the email, two more shortcuts appearing on my desktop
The first, a messenger app.
The next, a simple 'S' titled 'Shop'
"Huh."
"Well, these technically aren't systems, but I'm still going to call them as such." I mutter under my breath. "I wonder what happens if this breaks?"
*Ping*
I get another email.
"If this computer breaks, you can replace it using your magic, but considering that your energy right now is quite low, it'll be quite painful and may even leave you bedridden for a couple of days if not weeks. If your fridge breaks, tough luck, you'll have to get a new one. A normal one. One that won't re-stock. Same for your house, it's not auto-repairing, nor does it have any real defensive enchantments on it, so try to take good care of it, hm?"
I nod slowly at that information a single spell slotting into my mind.
'Create Desktop'.
It's locked right now... hell, ALL information about it is blocked out. from how to move my mana to do it, to even how to make the magic circles. It appears I can only have one. But oh well, there's something I need to do first.
I quickly walk into the bathroom, hopping slightly as I gaze into the mirror.
I clasp my hands together closing my eyes. "Thank you, Mom, Dad, for taking care of me. Mom, you might have been a conspiracy theorist who thought the world was flat, and dad, you might have been a chronic smoker and ruined practically everything you touched with the smell of smoke, but... I love you both and thank you for taking care of such a shitty loser of a child. I hope my disappearance or death didn't affect either of you that hard, and that you both have a good life. I love both of you and I'll miss you... but this... this is better for me. Goodbye."
A low sigh leaves my lips as I sag slightly, then I perk up.
"Alright! No time to mope! Let's go! I'll live the happy and fulfilling life they always tried to give me... and that means studying magic!"
I may have been a bit... hasty...
I have no idea where to even begin.
That fridge of mine just has three Lunchables meals in it.
At least one is that really good nacho cheese and salsa one... hell, it even has a crunch bar in it.
I tilt my head. 'hang on... maybe I could collect the packaged candy bars and stuff from the Lunchables and sell them? That might be a useful way to get money. I doubt chocolate is easy to come by.
Of course. Wizards exist. I have no doubt in my mind 'chocolate maker magic' could reasonably exist.
"Huh..." I mutter to myself. "That's certainly a goal, I suppose."
I stroke my chin, gazing up at the ceiling before shaking my head.
Anyways, I've thought of a new name for myself.
Or I've been thinking of one.
I've come to like...
Three real options.
Merlin, Georg, or Solomon... which would be casually just 'Sol' pronounced 'Soul' most of the time.
Solomon Faust maybe?
I could just call myself 'Merlin Ambrosius', but... eh... I'm not really feeling it, honestly.
Rasputin?
Heh.
OH! What about Nicholas Flamel?
Technically not really a mage, but he made the Philosopher's stone.
Creating some sort of immortality Elixer should also be on the docket... I don't want to die of old age, after all.
I've got time as... I have no idea where to start with this fuckin' nonsense.
I close my eyes, rubbing my temples. 'fuuuuuuh... alright, I guess I'll just try and meditate? That's typically what people do when they want to draw out powers in movies, games, and animes, right? Whatever. Let's try it.'
Huh. it actually worked.
Honestly, I was ninety percent sure it wouldn't.
I blink owlishly as I gaze to the numerous specks idly floating around my home.
It's...
Sort of like a swarm of bees.
I notice said little motes of light slowly but surely move around the room.
There are three key locations that they seem to be guided towards.
The first, and probably the most obvious.
Me.
I nearly had a panic attack when I first awakened this sight. But... this seems to be ethernano.
It looks like little dots...
Like those little white specks in Vegeta's Super Saiyan 'Royal' Blue Aura.
Little soda fizz bubbles.
Anyways. Said soda bubbles also seem to be guided to my little desktop and the fridge.
My stomach growls causing me to blink.
'holy shit. It's already dark?! How long did I sit here?!'
I tap my chin, as I watch the little bubbles slowly combine into a larger bubble atop my open palm.
"Huh..."
I wave my hand through the orb, feeling no real physical aspect to it at all.
I watch it slightly break apart, a greenish gas flowing around me.
Well not really a 'gas' per say, just a bunch of the tiny motes.
Did me gathering them like that not create one singular orb? Just a bunch of tightly packed little orbs?
How do I change this to like...
Literally anything useful.
I have a couple theories.
One is imagination.
I doubt that'll work.
But another one might just work.
Fire Piston.
I plan to condense all of that energy into a speck all at once.
If I'm right... maybe I'll get some form of heat...
Of course, I'll be doing this outside, but still.
I wonder...
"The earth, the trees, the sea, please give me your energy!" I raise my hands above my head, beginning to collect little motes of Ethernano above my head.
My eyes widen.
I had just wanted to pretend to be Goku for a second... but there's a notable difference between how easily the particles moved earlier... and how they move now.
is vocalization a part of magic? Well, I suppose that explains all the 'Fire Dragon Iron Fist's and 'Open Gates of the X'
Speaking of celestial spirits...
Let's make it one of my goals to grab Virgo so I don't have to deal with home maintenance.
It has been about a week since I came here.
Food is... fine, I guess. I'm collecting wrapped candy bars and stuff from my Lunchables. Maybe I could sell them off for a quick buck.
Ooooh that's a pretty good idea. Sell the freebees I get for a little pocket change, then buy bigger and better candy bars from online! Genius!
But what happens if I get mugged?
Damn.
Wizard bullshit first. Then whatever else.
*Ping*
I blink slowly turning towards the computer and dropping whatever I am doing.
I quickly walk over, looking to the new email I received.
It is titled 'New Objective:'
"Greetings, How has your life been so far? Slow? Well, that's to be expected. I gave you no real dirrection... but now, I suppose I should give you a nudge in a certain direction and unveil another aspect of your researching capabilities. I will reward you for completing little 'jobs' for me. Well, not neccisarily 'jobs' more like 'objectives'. Think of this like a game. I will send you 'tasks' to complete every now and then. Most with a time limit. Now, these tasks will typically always have something to do with researching magic. Such as 'discover the concepts behind a healing spell' or 'creating your first magic item'. But. If you complete these tasks, you will be granted boons! Perhaps I'll upgrade one of your powers, maybe I'll give you money, or maybe an obscure book on magic from another universe!"
"Considering this is your first 'goal'. There will be no time limit. Complete it at your own convenience."
Mission Gained: Learn one of the four base elemental magics (Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind)
Reward: One of 3 possible options all of which will be revealed when this mission is completed.
"Huh. Alright."
I watch a hazy aura of green snap to a pinprick.
*pop*
"Hm..." I lowly hum.
Shockingly inefficient.
To even get that weak little pop I had to gather enough ethernano to create a softball's sized ball of energy.
it takes me a couple minutes to gather that much energy...
Or, well, just under a minute if I pull a Goku and do the spirit bomb chant.
It stings a little when it happens, as I finally built up enough courage to put my hand in it a few cycles ago.
I wouldn't call it an 'attack' magic yet.
More 'irritant' magic.
Still. It's something to write about.
I begin typing away on my computer, opening up a little 'notes' tab.
"Magic 1: Implosion Magic:
A simple magic that relies on gathering ambient ethernano into a ball and collapsing it in on itself. It has potential, but I'd need to get far better at gathering magic to make it work. Highly inefficient with a very low skill-ceiling. I can see only like... maybe one or two different spells for it, the remainder just being bigger and better versions of the first spell.
Spell 1:
Snap: Create a softball sized orb of Ethernano then collapse it in on itself. Stings a little bit and creates a quiet pop.
Future Ideas: Shaped Ethernano. Like... Triangles, cubes and Cylinders. I gather magic from the surroundings, not feeling exhausted in the slightest, see if I can use the Mana in my body, as if I don't how will I ever improve? Vocalize Spell. Flatten and add Spin? Like a sawblade?"
"The people, the earth, the trees, the sea, please lend me your energy!" I call out.
A spec begins to grow atop my palm, starting out slow before growing larger and larger.
I walk to the door, holding my hand up.
'I need to figure out Spell Circles as well. Everyone in Fairy Tail uses magic circles.'
"Let's see here... this is about the size it was last time..." I whisper to myself.
I hold out a hand, gently guiding the orb away from me.
It stops a short ten feet away.
"Snap." I callout just before compressing the orb.
*POP*
That was louder than before...
Probably more violent as well.
I'll do that a couple more times just to see if it was a fluke, or if it just seemed louder outside.
I run my fingers through my wet hair, gazing into the mirror.
Then... it hits me like a sock filled with pennies. "HOLY SHIT!"
I look like that one guy from that incest game.
What was his name? Andy? Or something.
Andrew! It was Andrew.
If I'm Andrew... where's my potentially hot enough to tempt me younger sister?
Eh.
I have no experience with women. I'd rather live alone, honestly.
I quickly grab my single set of spare clothes-
Ah.
Right.
I need to buy more clothes for when I get bigger.
Shit.
That's just another thing I need to put on 'the list'.
But first, I need money. The biggest issue.
I've been here for about two weeks. All spent just messing around with my Implosion Magic. A few things I've figured out... spells are more powerful when you vocalize it. It's roughly a four times increase to power. In addition, I've been messing around with adding 'somatic' components to casting.
By that, I mean like... hand gestures and stuff.
Basically DnD spellcasting.
Notably it does improve the power even further. Definitely not as much as the vocalization, but when paired with speaking... it's quite dangerous. Clenching my fist had decent results, Snapping my fingers was certainly more powerful though, as was throwing my arms out and slamming my hands together like some sort of clap. Could I try and snap at the same time? honestly, anything more than snapping or clenching my fist might cause me to look really goofy.
I might even be able to hurt someone with the magic if I really wanted... and had enough time to charge up an attack.
I look to my fridge, gazing at the items inside.
Twenty eight capri-suns of various flavors- I don't really care for them. I've just been drinking the tap water from the sink in the bathroom. Roughly fourteen candy bars, mostly crunch, some kit kat.
My main question is 'HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO SELL THIS SHIT?!'
Who's going to fucking trust some random ass child with candy?!
I stiffen, eyes widening.
An ability.
One that I hadn't been using.
I quickly make my way to the computer and power on the 'chat group' function.
"Yeeeees. A way to pawn off chocolate to worlds for resources!"
Genius!
Now I don't have to go outside! Muahahah!
I watch the blinking page, crossing my arms.
"Now... to wait..."
I snap awake, letting out a quiet yawn. "Hmm?"
I look to the screen.
It looks like someone is doing... math?
How the hell are they doing that on a computer.
It looks like they've legitimately written out a math problem.
"Hello?" I write.
The math seems to stop.
"Is anyone there?"
Nothing happens.
"Uh... to explain this blandly, I have a special power that allows me to connect to people far away. I was hoping that we could trade things as I'm an aspiring mage and need materials."
"Who are you?" Someone eventually writes down, its sort of messy, but it looks as if they are writing with a quill or something.
"My name is Andrew." - Andrew
I blink at the little text that now has appeared at the end. At first the text was just in different colors. Mine a deep black and this other person's a light blue.
"Oh. My name is Papi. I'm a Harpy on the Sky City Mistralia!" - Papi
"Sky city?" I echo. "Wait. Harpy? Papi? Isn't that a character from Monster Mesume?"
I write down my reply. "I haven't heard of any sky cities before. I just know I'm outside of a city of some sort with a magic guild in it." - Andrew
"MAGIC GUILD?! That sounds incredible!" - Papi
"So what's your life like?" - Andrew
"Oh... I'm a blacksmith apprentice! I've been learning from my mother all my life!" - Papi
"Interesting! Make anything neat yet?" - Andrew
"Only Iron swords, sadly, but my mother's one of the best blacksmiths in Mistalia! She supplies star fury spears to the town guards! Being one of the only people in Mistralia who is able to make them." - Papi
Soooo.
How does one politely word 'Gimmie Money'.
Heyo. New Snippet time. A REALISTIC look into the general Isekai experience! Or, as it's manga name would be called, 'Holy fuck I have so much crippling anxiety that it has been an entire fucking year since I took a single step outside and spoke to an actual fucking person'.
ANYWAYS. Little Andy is going to mess around with some magic, maybe even do a few requests. Who knows if he'll ever build up the courage to go to fairy tail on the other side of town. Even still... Fairy Tail seems like such a peaceful place to reincarnate...
If you don't think about it too hard, stay the fuck out of the way, and keep your head down, that is. Andy seems to have forgotten all the fucked up shit that happens like child slavery and murder while focusing on the shounen comedy aspects.